Movies

A grand, brooding Russian crime drama set in a corner of the world you likely haven't seen, "Leviathan" is about an ordinary man taking on a dirty town that Dashiell Hammett or James M. Cain would've been proud to call home.

In Kris Swanberg's quiet and absorbing "Empire Builder," a young mother stares out the window of her Lake Shore Drive high-rise, the sound of traffic and street noise from below gradually becoming louder and overwhelming, as though mimicking the restless emotions hiding behind the placid look...

Steven Spielberg is attached to direct Jennifer Lawrence in a Warner Bros. film based on photojournalist Lynsey Addario's memoir, "It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War," The Times has confirmed.

In chatting with Julianne Moore for her (now Oscar-winning) turn in the drama "Still Alice" a little while ago, I’d asked what it was like to star in that film so close to the Hollywood satire “Maps to the Stars.” The two pieces, after all, are about as tonally different as...